10-letter words containing k, l
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- block coal — bituminous coal that breaks into large lumps or cubical blocks.
- block lava — volcanic lava occurring as rough-surfaced jagged blocks
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- blockflote — a recorder.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blood bank — A blood bank is a place where blood which has been taken from blood donors is stored until it is needed for people in hospital.
- blood knot — barrel knot.
- blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.